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UNIVERSIT Y OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Fall
2019
I N T E R N AT I O N A L E D I T I O N
FALL 2019 Dear Readers,
Imagination is at the center of publishing: authors who foster
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ideas and see them through, publishers who bring books
25 ART
to life, booksellers who believe in the power of the written
32 NEW IN PAPERBACK word—all stem from the deeply human ability to imagine
43 SOCIAL SCIENCES something that has never existed before.
59 HISTORY
65 FILM & MEDIA STUDIES We are proud to kick off the Fall 2019 catalog with Benjamin
67 MUSIC Aldes Wurgaft’s Meat Planet. Wurgaft asks us to imagine a
69 ANCIENT WORLD world of “cultured meat”, and explores the complex issues
73 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS surrounding the future of lab-grown meats.
77 SALES INFO
Ithaca Forever then complicates our understanding of the
79 INDEX OF TITLES AND
AUTHORS Odyssey by retelling the story from Penelope’s point of
view, allowing us to imagine a new perspective on a long-
established tale.
And by drawing on works from across the world, we reimagine
how classic literature is conceived of and recognized within
the canon. In the World Literature in Translation series, we
juxtapose the traditional with the unconventional, setting
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Meat Planet
Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
In 2013 a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger,
and since then the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully
cultured tissues, has spread like wildfire through the media. Meanwhile, cultured meat
researchers race against population growth and climate change in an effort to make
sustainable protein. Meat Planet explores the quest to generate meat in the lab—a
substance sometimes called “cultured meat”—and asks what it means to imagine that
this is the future of food.
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat. Based
on five years of fieldwork, Meat Planet reveals how debates about lab-grown meat
reach beyond debates about food, by examining the links between appetite, growth,
and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually be the object
of our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by
another? The meat problem is not merely a problem of production. Like all problems
in our food system, it is intrinsically social and political, and demands that we examine
questions of justice and desirable modes of living in a shared and finite world.
With cultured meat not yet in supermarkets or restaurants, Benjamin Wurgaft tells
a story that could utterly transform the way we think of animals, the way we relate
to farmland, the way we use water and the way we think about population and our
fragile ecosystem’s capacity to sustain life. He argues that even if cultured meat does
not “succeed,” it functions—much like science fiction—as a crucial mirror that we can
hold up to our contemporary fleshy dysfunctions.
Series: California Studies in Food and Culture, 69
A provocative inquiry into the complex
“As a thoughtful and informed meditation on the ambiguities of killing animals and issues surrounding the future of lab-
eating their flesh, Meat Planet offers a welcome change from the boosterism of the
grown meats.
proponents of cultured meat on the one hand and the shrill anthropomorphism of
many of the opponents of meat eating on the other.”
—Rachel Laudan, author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History OCTOBER
Social Science/Agriculture & Food
“Ben Wurgaft’s account of his five years stalking the promise of a lab-grown burger 272 pp. 6 x 9
WORLD
is a restless narrative, told with grace and wit, about our modern hunger for meat.
Meat Planet questions what it is to be an eating, thinking human, caught between the $27.95T | £22.00 Cloth
imagined past of bucolic farms and a hyped future of gleaming bioreactors.” 978-0-520-29553-7
—John Birdsall, James Beard Award-winning food writer
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft is a writer and historian, and
currently a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at MIT.
He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellow at MIT, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the
New School for Social Research. His essays on food
and other topics appear regularly in publications from
Gastronomica to the Los Angeles Review of Books to the
Hedgehog Review. He is @benwurgaft on Twitter.
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Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food
by Warren Belasco
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Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the
Pacific Islands
by Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
978-0-520-26093-1, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History
by Rachel Laudan
978-0-520-28631-3, $29.95T | £24.00 Paper
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Italy’s Native Wine Grape
Terroirs
Ian D’Agata
Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs is the definitive reference book on Italy’s myriad
crus and the grand cru wine production areas of Italy’s native wine grapes. Ian
D’Agata’s approach to discussing wine, both scientific and discursive, provides an
easy-to-read, enjoyable guide to Italy’s best wine terroirs. Descriptions are enriched
with geologic data, biotype and clonal information, producer anecdotes and
interviews, and facts and figures compiled over fifteen years of research devoted to
wine terroirs. In-depth analysis is provided for the terroirs that produce grapes for
Italy’s best wines, both the well-known wines (Barolo, Chianti Classico, Brunello di
Montalcino) and also those not as well-known (Grignolino d’Asti, Friuli Colli Orientali
Picolit, Ischia). Everyday wine lovers, beginners, and professionals alike will find this
new book to be the perfect complement to D’Agata’s previous award-winning Native
Wine Grapes of Italy.
“Part walking Wikipedia, part philosopher, Ian D’Agata supplies a wealth of
information on Italian wine—both fact and lore—and his latest book is a must-have
and a compelling read for all lovers of Italy, Italian culture, and Italian wine. Ian’s
unique voice and unparalleled access to Italy’s most famous, most infamous, and
those not-yet-discovered winemakers and vignerons tells a fascinating story of Italy’s
history through the lens of agriculture and winemaking.”
—Laura DePasquale, Master Sommelier
“D’Agata’s prose is as noteworthy as the scholarly content. Anyone interested in
delving deeply into Italian wine needs a copy of this book”
The definitive reference book on the —Michael Apstein, James Beard Award–winning wine writer and Assistant Professor
wine production areas of Italy’s native of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
wine grapes.
“I get asked all the time: Which wine writers do you most admire? Ian D’Agata is always
at the top of my list. He is that rarest of creatures, a once-in-a-generation great wine
writer, a benchmark for writing beautifully, engagingly, and with compelling insight.
SEPTEMBER Really, nobody today does it better.”
—Matt Kramer, author of True Taste: The Seven Essential Wine Words
Cooking/Beverages/Alcoholic/Wine
384 pp. 7 x 10 Illus: 5 tables
WORLD
$50.00sc | £40.00 Cloth Ian D’Agata (www.iandagata.com) is an award-winning
978-0-520-29075-4 author who has been writing about wine for almost thirty
years. Senior editor of Vinous and the creative director
of Collisioni’s wine & food project (Italy’s largest music,
literature, wine, and food festival), he is also director
of the Indigena festival devoted to Italy’s native grapes
and wines, and of 3iC, an international wine and food
study center in Barolo. In 2018, he was nominated to
the prestigious Accademia della Vite e del Vino, Italy’s
official association of viticulture and enology researchers,
university professors, and educators.
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Native Wine Grapes of Italy
by Ian D’Agata
978-0-520-27226-2, $50.00sc | £40.00 Cloth
Wine and Place: A Terroir Reader
edited by Tim Patterson and John Buechsenstein
978-0-520-27700-7, $39.95sc | £30.00 Cloth
Barolo and Barbaresco: The King and
Queen of Italian Wine
by Kerin O’Keefe
978-0-520-27326-9, $39.95sc | £30.00 Cloth
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Ithaca Forever
Penelope Speaks, A Novel
Luigi Malerba. Translated by Douglas Grant Heise, with an
introduction by Emily Hauser, author of For the Most Beautiful
After twenty years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, but instead of receiving the
homecoming he had hoped for finds himself caught in an intense battle of wills with
his faithful and long-suffering wife Penelope. When Penelope recognizes him under
the guise of a beggar, she becomes furious with him for not trusting her enough to
include her in his plans for ridding the palace of the Suitors. As a result, she plays
her own game of fictions to make him suffer for this lack of faith, inspiring jealousy,
self-doubt, and misgivings in her husband, the legendary Homeric hero.
In this captivating retelling of the Odyssey, Penelope rises as a major force with whom
to be reckoned. Shifting between first-person reflections, Ithaca Forever reveals the
deeply personal and powerful perspectives of both wife and husband as they struggle
for respect and supremacy within a marriage that has been on hold for twenty years.
Translated by PEN award-winner Douglas Grant Heise, Luigi Malerba’s novel gives us
a remarkable version of this greatest work of western literature: Odysseus as a man
full of doubts and Penelope as a woman of great depth and strength.
“Ithaca Forever can be read on its own as a tale of homecoming, revenge and
disguised identities, or, on another level, as a deconstruction of Homer’s Odyssey.
. . . It is Malerba’s ability to move between Homeric citationality and remarkable
inventiveness—keeping his work fresh and accessible for non-Homeric readers—
which is one of the features that makes this book such a rewarding read.”
—from the Introduction by Emily Hauser
A bold and subversive story of
Luigi Malerba (1927–2008) was a major twentieth-century Italian novelist, screenwriter,
and short story writer. He was one of the most prominent writers of the Italian avant-
Odysseus’s return through
garde literary movement, Gruppo 63, along with founding member Umberto Eco. Penelope’s eyes.
Among other awards and honors, he recieved the inaugural Prix Médicis étranger in
1970 and the Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1988. NOVEMBER
Fiction/General
Douglas Grant Heise is a literary translator who lives and works in Levanto, on the 171 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Italian Riviera. He is the recipient of the 2017 PEN Grant for the English Translation of WORLD
Italian Literature award.
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Emily Hauser is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading and the author of
the acclaimed Golden Apple trilogy, For the Most Beautiful, For the Winner, and For
the Immortal.
ALSO OF INTEREST
The Odyssey: A New Translation by Peter Green
by Homer
978-0-520-30336-2, $16.95T | £13.99 Paper
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
by Homer
978-0-520-28143-1, $16.95T | £13.99 Paper
The Poems of Hesiod: Theogony, Works and
Days, and the Shield of Herakles
by Hesiod. Translated by Barry B. Powell
978-0-520-29286-4, $14.95tx | £11.99 Paper
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World Literature in Translation
The Odes Medea
Pindar. Translated with introduction and notes by A New Translation
Andrew M. Miller Euripides. Translated by Charles Martin. Introduction
by A.E. Stallings
One of the most celebrated poets of the classical world, Pindar Euripides’ Medea is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and
wrote odes for athletes that provide a unique perspective on the social and arguably the one that has the most significance for us today. A barbarian
political life of ancient Greece. Commissioned by successful contestants woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband,
at the Olympic games and other Panhellenic contests, such odes were Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against
performed in the victors’ hometowns and conferred enduring recognition his new wife and family—even slaughtering the sons she has borne him.
on their achievements. From the very beginning of the play, we are drawn into a world “torn
asunder by blind, disruptive forces, which affords no consolation, no
Andrew M. Miller’s superb new translation captures the beauty of compassion for suffering.” At its center is Medea herself, a character who
Pindar’s forty-five surviving victory odes, preserving the rhythm, refuses definition: is she a hero, a witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All
elegance, and imagery for which they have been admired since that can be said for certain is that she is a woman who has loved, has
antiquity while adhering closely to the meaning of the original Greek. suffered, and will stop at nothing for vengeance.
This edition provides a comprehensive introduction and interpretive
notes to guide readers through the intricacies of the poems and the In this stunning translation, poet Charles Martin captures the rhythms
worldview that they embody. of Euripides’ original text through contemporary rhyme and meter that
speak directly to modern readers. An introduction by classicist and
poet A.E. Stallings examines the complex and multifaceted Medea in
“These translations, with their extensive annotations, offer a full rendering patriarchal ancient Greece. Perfect in and out of the classroom as well as
of the experience of a Pindaric ode. Miller’s phenomenal knowledge of for theatrical performance, this faithful translation succeeds like no other.
Greek, ear for English poetry, and meticulous fidelity to the original will
make this volume a treasure for any readers who wish to understand and
enjoy Greece’s greatest lyric poet.” “A masterful translation of a crucial classic. Martin’s Medea is crisp,
—William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, forceful, swift, witty, and utterly believable and persuasive.”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —Rachel Hadas, author of Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage,
Dementia, and Poetry
Andrew M. Miller is a Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of
Pittsburgh and the author of From Delos to Delphi: A Literary Study of Charles Martin is a poet, translator and essayist. The author of seven
the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation. books of poems and translator of Catullus and Ovid, he is the recipient
of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters, a Bess Hokin Award from Poetry magazine,
and fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts.
A.E. Stallings is an American poet and translator who lives in Athens,
Greece. Her most recent books are LIKE: Poems and Hesiod’s Works and
Days.
OCTOBER DECEMBER
Poetry/Ancient & Classical Poetry/Ancient & Classical
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The Celestina is considered by scholars to be The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along One of the greatest works of Spanish literature,
the first European novel. Written in fifteenth- with three additional tales from the same this eight-hundred-year-old epic details the
century Spain, this masterpiece is remarkable tradition, form this collection and constitute legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer
for its originality, depth, handling of dialogue, the core of the ancient Welsh mythological Ruy Díaz of Bivar, El Cid, and of his part in the
and drawing of character. This Spanish classic, cycle. Included in this volume are only those long struggle between Christianity and Islam. It
the greatest of the forebears of Cervantes, was stories that have remained unadulterated by is a powerful epic that sings of universal human
originally published anonymously, in 1499; later the influence of the French Arthurian romances, values and failures, of loyalty and betrayal.
editions bear the name of Fernando de Rojas resulting in a rare, authentic selection of the
as author. finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This Lesley Byrd Simpson’s translations of The
landmark edition translate by Patrick Ford is Celestina and The Poem of the Cid (both from
Lesley Byrd Simpson was a renowned translator a literary achievement of the highest order. UC Press) preserve the vigor and colloquial
of many great works of Spanish literature. flavor of the original.
Patrick K. Ford is the Margaret Brooks Robinson
Research Professor of Celtic Languages and
Literatures at Harvard University.
The Celestina: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish The Mabinogi and Other Medieval The Poem of the Cid
Novel in Dialogue Welsh Tales Translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson
Fernando de Rojas. Edited and Translated by Patrick K. Ford 157 pp. 5 x 7 3/4
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Psychiatry and Its
Discontents
Andrew Scull
Written by one of the world’s distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its
Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on one hundred years
of psychiatry. Andrew Scull traces the rise of the field, the midcentury hegemony
of psychoanalytic methods, and the paradigm’s decline along with the ascendance
and hegemony of biological and pharmaceutical approaches to mental illness. The
book’s historical sweep is broad, ranging from the age of the asylum to the rise of
psychopharmacology and the dubious triumphs of “community care.” Collectively,
the essays in Psychiatry and Its Discontents provide a vivid and compelling portrait of
the recurring crises of legitimacy that “mad-doctors,” as they were once called, have
endured, and illustrates the impact of psychiatry’s ideas and interventions on the lives
of those afflicted with mental illness.
“An enthralling collection that will shock many, enrage some, and entertain all.”
—Simon Rich, author of Hits and Misses
“A must read for those with interest in learning about the fraught history of
psychiatry.”
—Susannah Cahalan, author of Brain on Fire
“Scull’s deep historical knowledge of the interlocking fields of neurology, psychiatry,
psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and psychology give him unparalleled insight into
mental health. Should be read by historians, social scientists, practitioners and
patients alike.”
—Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness and Mad, Bad, and Sad
The definitive account of the history of
“The definitive account of the treatment of mental illness from its beginnings to the
treating mental illness. present day. An outstanding accomplishment.”
—Patrick McGrath, author of Spider, Asylum, and Trauma
AUGUST “Scull is a master of the complex space where history, sociology, social policy, and
ethics meet. An indispensable book for anyone concerned with history and health
Psychology/History
376 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 10 b/w figures policy.”
WORLD —Charles E. Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint
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Andrew Scull is Distinguished Research Professor of
Sociology and Science Studies at the University of
California, San Diego. He is past president of the Society
for the Social History of Medicine. His most recent book,
Madness in Civilization, has been translated into more
than a dozen languages.
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Danger to Self: On the Front Line
with an ER Psychiatrist
by Paul R. Linde, MD
978-0-520-26983-5, $24.95tx | £20.00 Paper
Pharmageddon
by David Healy
978-0-520-27576-8, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and
Experience in Mental Illness
by Janis H. Jenkins
978-0-520-28711-2, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
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Captured at Sea
Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean
Jatin Dua
How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and
negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude
oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the
unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-
first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard
multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects
modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our
increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption,
but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at
Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas, today,
continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce.
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century, 3
“This is an engaging and vivid narrative, based on extraordinary fieldwork and
insightful observations. It is filled with compelling anecdotes, events, and characters,
and it tells a story that is both intrinsically interesting and filled with intriguing
insights about power, violence, and sovereignty.”
—James Ferguson, author of Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of
Distribution
Jatin Dua is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Michigan.
An account of maritime piracy based on
the author’s years living among
Somali pirates.
JANUARY
Social Science/Anthropology/Cultural & Social
235 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 4 b/w photos, 6 illustrations,
4 maps, 1 chart
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$85.00tx | £66.00 Cloth
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978-0-520-30520-5
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Darkness before Daybreak: African Migrants
Living on the Margins in Southern Italy Today
by Hans Lucht
978-0-520-27073-2, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on
Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India
by Sarah Besky
978-0-520-27739-7, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Margins of the Market: Trafficking and
Capitalism across the Arabian Sea
by Johan Mathew
978-0-520-28855-3, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
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Jephthah’s Daughter,
Sarah’s Son
The Death of Children in Late Antiquity
Maria E. Doerfler
Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of
economic crisis, war, and disease. They had a one in three chance of dying before
their first birthday, with as many as half dying before age ten. Christian writers
accordingly sought to speak to the experience of bereavement and to provide
cultural scripts for parents who had lost a child. These late ancient writers turned
to characters like Eve and Sarah, Job and Jephthah as models for grieving and for
confronting or submitting to the divine.
Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son traces the stories that these writers crafted and the
ways in which they shaped the lived experience of familial bereavement in ancient
Christianity. A compelling social history that conveys the emotional lives of people
in the late ancient world, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son is a powerful portrait of
mourning that extends beyond antiquity, even to the present day.
“Doerfler paints vibrant portraits of how late antique Christian communities responded
to children’s deaths and parental grief by reading their lives and experiences through
the accounts of biblical heroes and heroines faced with tragedy.”
—Caroline T. Schroeder, author of Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in
Shenoute of Atripe
Maria E. Doerfler is Assistant Professor of Late Antiquity
A revelatory history of grief in the in Yale University’s Department of Religious Studies.
ancient world and what it teaches us
about life.
FEBRUARY
Religion/Ancient
415 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
WORLD
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Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling,
and Cracking Up
by Mary Beard
978-0-520-28758-7, $18.95T | £14.99 Paper
The Final Pagan Generation
by Edward J. Watts
978-0-520-28370-1, $34.95tx | £27.00 Cloth
Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church:
Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the
Vision of Rome
by Susanna Elm
978-0-520-28754-9, $35.95tx | £28.00 Paper
8 | TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE University of California PressAge of Coexistence
The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of
the Modern Arab World
Ussama Makdisi
Today’s headlines paint the Middle East as a collection of war-torn countries and
extremist groups consumed by sectarian rage. Ussama Makdisi’s Age of Coexistence
reveals a hidden and hopeful story that counters this clichéd portrayal. It shows
how a region rich with ethnic and religious diversity created a modern culture of
coexistence amid Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence
of nationalism.
Moving from the nineteenth century to the present, this groundbreaking book
explores, without denial or equivocation, the politics of pluralism during the Ottoman
Empire and in the post-Ottoman Arab world. Rather than judging the Arab world as
a place of age-old sectarian animosities, Age of Coexistence describes the forging
of a complex system of coexistence, what Makdisi calls the “ecumenical frame.” He
argues that new forms of antisectarian politics, and some of the most important
examples of Muslim-Christian political collaboration, crystallized to make and define
the modern Arab world.
Despite massive challenges and setbacks, and despite the persistence of colonialism
and authoritarianism, this framework for coexistence has endured for nearly a century.
It is a reminder that religious diversity does not automatically lead to sectarianism.
Instead, as Makdisi demonstrates, people of different faiths, but not necessarily of
different political outlooks, have consistently tried to build modern societies that
transcend religious and sectarian differences.
“Age of Coexistence dethrones the orthodox narrative of eternal antagonism and When ethnic and religious collaboration
unchanging identity in the Middle East. This is scholarship at its best, thoroughly
defined the Arab world.
documented, well written, and provocative.”
—Charles Glass, author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, and Syria
Burning, and former ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent
NOVEMBER
“In this important new book, Ussama Makdisi offers both broad and specific analysis History/Middle East/General
of sectarianism and its alternatives in the modern Middle East. His work remains a 352 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 3 maps
touchstone for all those working in the field, and no doubt will continue to shape WORLD
scholarly debates well beyond Middle East studies.”
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—Max Weiss, author of In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making 978-0-520-25888-4
of Modern Lebanon
“A major contribution to Middle East studies in the United States. With this book,
[Makdisi] takes his influential previous three books to another level and a broader
audience. It will—and ought to—be debated widely.”
—Jens Hanssen, author of Fin de Siècle Beirut
Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and the first
Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab
Studies at Rice University. He is the author of The Culture
of Sectarianism, Artillery of Heaven, and Faith Misplaced.
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Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives:
The First 1,000 Years
by Chase F. Robinson
978-0-520-29298-7, $29.95T Cloth
In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic
Medicine in Modern Egypt
by Khaled Fahmy
978-0-520-27903-2, $29.95sc | £30.00 Cloth
Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes
in a Historical Mirror
by Gary Fields
978-0-520-29105-8, $29.95sc | £24.00 Paper
www.ucpress.edu TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE | 9Revolutionary Love
A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform
the World
Rabbi Michael Lerner
For those who are tired of screaming across the table as they debate the future of
the country and the planet, Revolutionary Love brings hope, respect, and love to
today’s political divide. Rabbi Michael Lerner offers concrete solutions for future
development by identifying why the Left and the Right have been so ineffective in
achieving any lasting change and discussing what it will take to actually heal and
repair the world, both spiritually and physically.
He reminds us that ethical and spiritual qualities—compassion, respect, love,
and a strong sense of community—can bring people together in a beneficial and
constructive way that has the possibility of effecting real change.
A daring book on an urgent topic, Revolutionary Love aims to reunite all sections of
the population into a positive democratic force capable of reversing the downward
trajectory of our world. It is about a fundamental transformation of collective thinking
and acting that unites us for the greater good of all people.
“Lerner is one of the most significant prophetic public intellectuals and spiritual
leaders of our generation. Secular intellectuals and those who yearn for a major
change in the direction of American society can learn a lot from reading his book.”
—Cornel West, Harvard University
“In Revolutionary Love Rabbi Lerner lays out a powerful and compassionate plan
for building a Caring Society. I love this book. PIease read it and join with others to
Can respect and love be political acts? build the movement that can enable these ideas to reshape our society that so badly
needs this vision.”
—Keith Ellison, Attorney-General of the State of Minnesota
“Going beyond the narrow confines of what we are resisting, this book not only puts
NOVEMBER forward a positive vision, drawing much from the wisdom of feminists and peace
activists, but offers a coherent strategy for how to get there. It liberates readers to go
Political Science/Peace
304 pp. 6 x 8 beyond the ‘be realistic’ command of our ruling elites and to embrace the beautiful
WORLD and love-filled world that Michael Lerner proposes.”
—Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the women’s peace activism group Code Pink
$24.95T | £20.00 Cloth
978-0-520-30450-5
Rabbi Michael Lerner is the editor of Tikkun magazine.
He is the author of eleven books including two national
bestsellers, Jewish Renewal and The Left Hand of God:
Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right. He
received Morehouse College’s King-Gandhi Award for his
work for peace and nonviolence.
ALSO OF INTEREST
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable
Activism for the Twenty-First Century,
Updated and Expanded Edition
by Grace Lee Boggs, with Scott Kurashige
978-0-520-27259-0, $20.95sc | £16.99 Paper
Has the Gay Movement Failed?
by Martin Duberman
978-0-520-29886-6, $27.95T | £22.00 Cloth
How to Read a Protest: The Art of
Organizing and Resistance
by L.A. Kauffman
978-0-520-30152-8, $22.95T | £17.99 Cloth
10 | TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE University of California PressFamished
Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
Rebecca J. Lester
When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old—and again when she was eighteen—she
almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology
and a licensed social worker, she turns her ethnographic and clinical gaze to the
world of eating disorders—their history, diagnosis, lived realities, treatment, and place
in the American cultural imagination.
Famished is the culmination of over two decades of anthropological and clinical work—
as well as a lifetime of lived experience—that presents a profound rethinking of
eating disorders and how to treat them. Through a mix of rich cultural analysis,
detailed therapeutic accounts, and raw autobiographical reflections, Famished helps
make sense of why people develop eating disorders, what the process of recovery
is like, and why treatments so often fail. It’s also an unsparing condemnation of the
tension between profit and care in the American healthcare scheme, demonstrating
how a system set up to treat a disease may, in fact, perpetuate it. Fierce and
vulnerable, critical and hopeful, Famished will forever change the way you understand
eating disorders and the people who suffer with them.
“Beautifully written, sharply observant, and deeply researched, Rebecca J. Lester’s
Famished is a work of rare nuance and depth on a subject that is still scarcely
understood. A voice of both reason and compassion, Lester proposes viable solutions
to the public health crisis of eating disorders, solutions we cannot afford to ignore.”
—Marya Hornbacher, New York Times bestselling author of Wasted and Madness
“Rebecca Lester’s Famished provides a uniquely comprehensive examination of
eating disorders in America. Writing from her multiple perspectives—as former A fierce and critical rethinking of eating
patient, trained cultural anthropologist, and practicing clinician—she offers both disorder treatment based on decades of
insight and a valuable critique of current approaches to therapy for these notoriously
research and lived experience.
persistent syndromes. This book is an essential resource for anyone engaged in
treating and caring for those who suffer from eating disorders.”
—Aimee Liu, author of Gaining: The Truth about Life after Eating Disorders and DECEMBER
Solitaire Social Science/Anthropology/Cultural & Social
402 pp. 6 x 9
WORLD
“Combining her perspectives as a licensed therapist, anthropologist, and former
patient, Lester contributes valuable insights on how our society withholds care while $34.95sc | £27.00 Cloth
trying to treat those whose illness tells them they are unworthy of care.” 978-0-520-30393-5
—Pamela K. Keel, Ph.D., author of Eating Disorders
Rebecca J. Lester is Associate Professor of Anthropology
at Washington University in St. Louis and a licensed
clinical social worker. She is the author of numerous
academic articles and the award-winning book Jesus in
Our Wombs.
ALSO OF INTEREST
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us
by S. Lochlann Jain
978-0-520-27657-4, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture,
and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition
by Susan Bordo
978-0-520-24054-4, $34.95tx | £27.00 Paper
A Passion for Society: How We Think about
Human Suffering
by Iain Wilkinson and Arthur Kleinman
978-0-520-28723-5, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
www.ucpress.edu TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE | 11NOW AVAILABLE AS A STUNNING
BOXED SET WITH NEW BONUS MATERIAL
the landmark atlases from Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker,
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Explore the hidden histories
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traditional atlas
In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit—aided by local writers, artists,
historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—has
compiled three stunning atlases that have radically changed the
way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look
at the multifaceted nature of a city as experienced by its different
inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that
make up urban life.
This three-volume paperback set contains:
• A new and thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit reflecting
on the project ten years after the publication of the first
atlas
• Three new and updated, full-color, fold-out posters for
each city, including the popular “City of Women” map
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A stunning collection, this boxed set is a treasury of imagination and
insight, a rich history of these infinite cities.
Praise for the Trilogy:
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Infinite Cities
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138 color illustrations, 14 b/w photographs
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12 | TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE University of California PressAmerican Disruptor
The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford
Roland De Wolk
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford—from his birth in a
backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and
remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and
historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man
became this country’s original “disruptor,” reshaping industry and engineering one of
the greatest raids on the public treasury for America’s transcontinental railroad, all
while living more opulently than maharajas, kings, and emperors.
It is also the saga of how Stanford, once a serial failure, overcame all obstacles to
become one of America’s most powerful and wealthiest men, using his high elective
office to enrich himself before losing the one thing that mattered most to him: his
only child and son. Scandal and intrigue would follow Stanford through his life, and
even after his death, when his widow was murdered in a Honolulu hotel—a crime
quickly covered up by the almost stillborn university she had saved. Richly detailed
and deeply researched, American Disruptor restores Leland Stanford’s rightful
place as a revolutionary force and architect of modern America.
“The book could not come at a better time. Today Stanford University rides the horse
of entrepreneurship as hard as Leland Stanford raced his famous trotting horses. This
is an entertaining and rollicking biography.”
—Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University
“Deeply researched and richly detailed, American Disrupter chronicles the life of
Leland Stanford and the wide-open world in which he lived. Roland de Wolk skillfully
unfolds this narrative about a bold, darkly contradictory man who, in his way,
constantly made history.” The almost unbelievable story behind
—Barry Siegel, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Dreamers and Schemers the founder of Stanford University.
“American Disruptor is beautifully written and fully researched with analysis and
documentation.”
—John McLaughlin, President, Silicon Valley Historical Association NOVEMBER
Biography & Autobiography/Historical
313 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 22 b/w illustrations
WORLD
Roland De Wolk is a seasoned investigative reporter in
print, broadcast, and online journalism. He is a historian, $34.95T | £27.00 Cloth
university adjunct, and, of course, an author. 978-0-520-30547-2
ALSO OF INTEREST
The Immigrant and the University: Peder Sather
and Gold Rush California
by Karin Sveen
978-0-520-27648-2, $34.95tx | £27.00 Cloth
Trailblazer: A Biography of Jerry Brown
by Chuck McFadden
978-0-520-27563-8, $29.95T | £24.00 Cloth
Berkeley: A City in History
by Charles Wollenberg
78-0-520-25307-0, $26.95sc | £21.00 Paper
www.ucpress.edu TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE | 13Wilted
Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile
Future of the Strawberry Industry
Julie Guthman
Strawberries are big business. In the United States, they are the sixth-highest-
grossing crop in the state of California, which produces 88 percent of the nation’s
favorite berry. Yet the industry is often criticized for its backbreaking labor conditions
and dependence on highly toxic soil fumigants used to control fungal pathogens and
other soilborne pests.
Using extensive research on California’s fruit-growing regions as a model, Wilted tells
the story of how the strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how
that reliance reverberated throughout the rest of the fruit’s production system. The
once-favorable conditions of plants, soils, chemicals, climate, and laboring bodies
that made strawberry production so lucrative have now changed and become a set
of related threats that jeopardize the future of the industry around the world.
Series: Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics, 6
“If you are looking for a critical, multispecies description of the plantation condition
today, this is the book to read. You’ll also learn how strawberries have become
something quite different than those your grandmother might have savored.”
—Anna Tsing, coeditor of Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
“Wilted brilliantly exposes the deadly intersection of grower capitalism, agricultural
expertise in the business of system restoration, and what Guthman calls the
nonhuman entities and forces that both collaborate and interrupt the operations of
The story of the strawberry industry’s the industry. A tour de force.”
toxic fumigants and their —Michael J. Watts, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
negative impacts. “Julie Guthman’s new book elegantly ties together a complex of work, land, capital,
ecology, and knowledge to present a rich and gripping analysis of the crisis in
SEPTEMBER California strawberry production, and its possible futures.”
Social Science/Agriculture & Food —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food
328 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 21 b/w illustrations System
WORLD
$85.00tx | £66.00 Cloth “I couldn’t put this book down. By systematically unpacking the politics (and limits) of
978-0-520-30527-4 repair, Guthman explains why industrial strawberries are both victim and perpetrator
of the Anthropocene. I’ll never look at the fruit the same again!”
$29.95sc | £24.00 Paper
—Michael Carolan, author of The Food Sharing Revolution: How Start-Ups, Pop-
978-0-520-30528-1
Ups, and Co-Ops Are Changing the Way We Eat
Julie Guthman is Professor of Social Sciences at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her previous books
include Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming
in California and Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and
the Limits of Capitalism.
ALSO OF INTEREST
Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a
Comprehensive Food Ethic
by Margaret Gray
978-0-520-27669-7, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic
Farming in California, Second Edition
by Julie Guthman
978-0-520-27746-5, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the
Politics of Production
by Sarah Bowen
978-0-520-28105-9, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
14 | TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE University of California PressDreamers and Schemers
How an Improbable Bid for the 1932
Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from
Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis
Barry Siegel
Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the
1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s
transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading
that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent
figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the
story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he helped drive
much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century,
and then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games.
Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto
a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s
visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s
grit and imagination made California history.
“Dreamers and Schemers brings alive a rollicking era when Los Angeles came of age,
even as the world plunged into war and the Great Depression. What a remarkable
tale. This is masterful storytelling.”
—Gay Talese
“Barry Siegel brilliantly evokes a complex drama: the misery of the Great Depression,
a flood of desperate migrants coming into Southern California, relentlessly optimistic
boosterism promoting the first summer Olympics on U.S. soil in nearly thirty years—
and an extraordinary, larger-than-life character at the center of the story.”
—Adam Hochschild, author of Lessons from a Dark Time
How one man brought the Olympics to
Los Angeles, fueling the city’s
“Dreamers and Schemers is engrossing, outlandish, fascinating, and a reading delight. urban transformation.
It pulls the curtain back on a great piece of LA history—the 1932 Olympics—and
manages to tell the entire story of the city’s rise. A pleasure for anyone who loves a NOVEMBER
well-told tale.”
History/United States/20th Century
—Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book 260 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 20 b/w photographs
WORLD
$29.95T | £24.00 Cloth
Barry Siegel, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for 978-0-520-29858-3
Feature Writing and the author of seven previous books,
is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles
Times. He now directs the literary journalism program at
the University of California, Irvine.
ALSO OF INTEREST
William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
by Catherine Mulholland
978-0-520-23466-6, $32.95T | £26.00 Paper
Bohemian Los Angeles and the
Making of Modern Politics
by Daniel Hurewitz
978-0-520-25623-1, $29.95sc | £24.00 Paper
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough,
and Wendy Cheng
978-0-520-27081-7, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
www.ucpress.edu TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE | 15Create, Produce, Consume
New Models for Understanding
Music Business
David Bruenger
Create, Produce, Consume explores the cycle of musical experience for professionals,
musicians, and budding entrepreneurs looking to break into the music industry.
Building on the concepts of his previous book, Making Money, Making Music,
David Bruenger provides readers with a basic framework for understanding the
relationships between the artist/audience and producer/consumer by examining
the methods underlying creation-production-reception and creation-consumption-
compensation. Each chapter offers a different perspective on the processes and
structures that lead listeners to discover, experience, and interact with music and
musical artists. Through case studies ranging from Taylor Swift’s refusal to allow her
music to be streamed on Spotify to the rise of artists supported through sites like
Patreon, Bruenger offers highly relevant real-world examples of industry practices
that shape our encounters with music. Create, Produce, Consume is a critical tool
for giving readers the agile knowledge necessary to adapt to a rapidly changing
music industry. Graphs, tables, lists for additional reading, and questions for further
discussion illustrate key concepts.
Online resources for instructors and students will include sample syllabi, lists for
expanded reading, and more.
“This is what those interested in the topic have been waiting for. To say that this book
is a holy grail in Music Industry Studies may not be far off the mark.”
—Gary Beckman, Director of Entrepreneurial Studies in the Arts at North Carolina
State University
Demystifies the music industry for
“Conveys a textured and many-layered approach to substantiation of the core ideas.
practicing and aspiring professionals and Bruenger is an expert in unfolding big ideas to best grasp many moving parts.”
entrepreneurs. —Mitchell Korn, Senior Lecturer of Music and Educational Outreach at Vanderbilt
University’s Blair School of Music
NOVEMBER
Music/Business Aspects
471 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 11 b/w line art David Bruenger is the founding director of the Music,
WORLD
Media, and Enterprise Program at the Ohio State
$85.00tx | £66.00 Cloth University. He is the author of Making Money, Making
978-0-520-30350-8 Music: History and Core Concepts.
$29.95sc | £24.00 Paper
978-0-520-30351-5
ALSO OF INTEREST
Making Money, Making Music: History and
Core Concepts
by David Bruenger
978-0-520-29259-8, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed
Music, Revised Edition
by Mark Katz
978-0-520-26105-1, $34.95tx | £27.00 Paper
Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and
Culture since 1989
by Tim Rutherford-Johnson
978-0-520-28315-2, $29.95sc | £24.00 Paper
16 | TRADE
TRADE/ACADEMIC
/ ACADEMICTRADE
TRADE University of California PressAdventures of a Jazz Age
Lawyer
Nathan Burkan and the Making of American
Popular Culture
Gary A. Rosen
Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is a lively narrative exploring the coming-of-age
of institutions, archetypes, and attitudes that define American popular culture. The
story is told through the career of legal giant Nathan Burkan, whose clients included
Charlie Chaplin, Al Jolson, Frank Costello, Victor Herbert, Mae West, Gloria Morgan
Vanderbilt, Arnold Rothstein, and Samuel Goldwyn. Burkan was one of the principal
draftspeople of the epochal Copyright Act of 1909 and the guiding spirit behind
ASCAP—the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers—which was
established to protect the rights of composers whose music was being played in
cabarets and theaters without compensation. His groundbreaking work laid the legal
foundation for the Great American Songbook and the Golden Age of Hollywood, and
it continues to influence popular culture today.
Gary A. Rosen tells stories of dramatic and often uproarious courtroom confrontations,
scandalous escapades of the rich and famous, and momentous clashes of powerful
political, economic, and cultural forces from which the United States emerged as the
world’s leading exporter of creative energy. Adventures of a Jazz Age Lawyer is not
merely an engaging look at the life of Nathan Burkan, but a history of entertainment
and intellectual property law in the early twentieth century. Rosen takes us on a
fascinating romp through an era of American culture that promises new discoveries
for anyone interested in the spirit of the Jazz Age.
“Gary Rosen is a born storyteller, and this is both a first-rate story and a previously Both a dramatic life story and an
untold one.” intriguing time capsule of an era.
—Peter Jaszi, author of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright
“The book reads like a literary novel with engaging characters and an intriguing plot.
FEBRUARY
Without trying to ‘analyze’ Nathan Burkan, Rosen gives a clear and moving picture
of his character, both his flaws and virtues. In the course of tracing Burkan’s career, History/United States/20th Century
392 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 20 b/w images
Rosen provides fascinating historical background that includes colorful characters.” WORLD
—Philip Furia, author of The Poets of Tin Pan Alley
$29.95sc | £24.00 Cloth
978-0-520-29737-1
Gary A. Rosen has practiced intellectual property law
for more than thirty years and is Adjunct Professor of
Law at the Kline School of Law at Drexel University. He
is the author of a book on popular music and copyright,
Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira
B. Arnstein, and writes a blog on law and popular culture
called Jazz Age Lawyer (www.jazzagelawyer.com).
ALSO OF INTEREST
Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive
Biography of Charles Mingus
by Krin Gabbard
978-0-520-26037-5, $34.95sc | £27.00 Cloth
Why Jazz Happened
by Marc Myers
978-0-520-30551-9, $29.95sc | £24.00 Paper
Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment
in Postwar Los Angeles
by Jon Lewis
978-0-520-28432-6, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
www.ucpress.edu TRADE/ACADEMIC TRADE | 17Opting Back In
What Really Happens When Mothers Go
Back to Work
Pamela Stone and Meg Lovejoy
What happens when high-powered women, having spent a decade at home to raise
children, attempt to rejoin the workforce? In a follow up to Opting Out?, Pamela
Stone’s scintillating examination of elite women who abandoned high-profile jobs
because of irreconcilable conflicts between job and family demands, Opting Back
In revisits the same women a decade after they have left employment. Through
in-depth interviews, Stone and Meg Lovejoy find a striking turn-around among
these women, many of whom have spent years being high-functioning volunteers
and ‘supermoms’. As the women do go back to work, either because of economic
exigencies such as the worldwide recession or because of a desire to re-engage as a
professional, the authors find that the years-long absence from the workforce takes its
toll. These highly trained professionals find employment as contingent workers who
are paid less and are in mostly temporary positions. In their own voices, the women
share their new career trajectories, mainly landing jobs that are disproportionately
in the heavily female non-profit sector. The authors explore how the twin pillars of
gender inequality—leadership and wage gaps—are thereby maintained for the very
women expected to transcend them. Opting Back In sheds light on how even elite,
professional women still encounter discrimination as they navigate the shoals of adult
working lives.
“Demonstrates how the personal decisions of a group of elite women reverberate
throughout our social world and become consequential both for those equally
privileged and for those with far fewer advantages. Beautifully written and
impeccably organized.”
Real-life stories of the struggles that —Margaret K. Nelson, co–author of Random Families
women face returning to work after “Provides keen insights on challenges professional women face as they exit and later
decades away. attempt to reestablish careers. Founded on rich data and crisply written, it is a must
read for anyone interested in work-family concerns.”
NOVEMBER —Stephen Sweet, Executive Officer, Work and Family Researchers Network
Social Science/Women’s Studies
244 pp. 6 x 9 Illus: 6 b/w figures “Vividly captures the dilemma facing professional women wrestling with family
WORLD obligations. Sympathetic and incisive, this book is essential for anyone who wants to
understand the personal and public toll America’s lack of family policy enacts even
$29.95T | £24.00 Cloth
978-0-520-29080-8 on the advantaged.”
—Sharon Sassler, coauthor of Cohabitation Nation
Pamela Stone is Professor of Sociology at Hunter College
and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
She is the author of Opting Out?: Why Women Really
Quit Careers and Head Home.
Meg Lovejoy is a sociologist and Senior Research
Associate at the Institute on Assets and Social Policy
at Brandeis University, focusing on challenges facing
women and minorities in U.S. culture and economy.
ALSO OF INTEREST
Lovejoy was a lead researcher for Opting Out?: Why
Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home.
and Head Home
by Pamela Stone
978-0-520-25657-6, $26.95tx | £21.00 Paper
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put
Motherhood before Marriage, With a New Preface
by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
978-0-520-27146-3, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City
by Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson
78-0-520-28392-3, $29.95tx | £24.00 Paper
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